The Incomprehensible Truth: These are tough times in the indie firmament panda people. Record sales are falling off the edge of a crumbling cliff. The remainder of the cliff is tumbling down on top of whatever is left of the music industry standing on a beach balefully staring at the sea. Time for something slightly different then…

‘Please Look After This Bear’ is a download compilation which consists of sixteen tracks by sixteen various vivacious recent / current artists released on fierce panda records throughout 2016. It was launched on November 11th on Spotify via Louder Than War and it will be exclusively ‘released’ on a donation basis via www.fiercepanda.co.uk on November 25th whereby we invite you the panda punter to pay-what-you-like for music-you-may-love.

That’s right. You can – not quite literally – cough up anything you desire from one shiny penny to £12.62 (that’s 16 x 79 iTunes pennies fiscal fact fans) or some point in-between or somewhere way beyond or whatever the heck you feel right here:

The ‘Please Look After This Bear’ title and indeed artwork is cribbed from the story of Paddington. The track-listing is in alphabetical order of the acts. Most of these songs are from albums mini-albums or EPs which came out over the past year and which are available from your favourite digital outlets or www.fiercepanda.co.uk